The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) is the central representative institition of the South African Jewish community. Most of the country's religious congregations, Jewish societies and institutions, as well as student bodies, are affiliated to it.

Its members are elected by the affiliate organisations at regional conferences and meet regularly to discuss and act upon issues of Jewish concern.

The Board functions through a combination of professional staff and voluntary lay leadership. It has regional committees and offices in Johannesburg, Bloemfontein, Cape Town Durcan, east London, Port elizabeth and Pretoria. These regions are represented on a National Executive Council, which meets once every three months at the national headquarters in Raedene, Johannesburg.

National conferences, at which the National President, Chairman and two Vice-Chairmen are elected by the NEC, take place biennially, with regional conferences taking place in the intervening years. The broad-based electoral processes described here make the Board the most democratically representative body of the Jewish community.